Here we have young Simon and Aron writing a letter on the wii to Santa.. or something. It’s not really specified who is the recipient but its a tradition here for them to comandeer a computer and write up a small piece of text. Neither of them can read, or write of course but that doesn’t stop them.

By the way, if you want a penpal it can be arranged for you to send emails to Aron, that he can reply to with the wii. He would love it!  Just let me know in the comments below and I promise you a steady (if slightly cryptic) correspondence.

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Here you have a typical morning at casa Gumucio Bergström. The kids normally wake up sometime between 5 and 6 am and the day gradually starts for kids and adults with the help of gruel and coffee respectively. Simon is currently on low-fiber high-fat diet, and no its not Atkins, its because doctors orders because he hasn’t been gaining weight like he should lately. Free play, kids morning television and breakfast then goes on until around after 8am.

At 9 am its time for Arons daycare, a short 5 minute walk away, so we take the double stroller pictured above. Simon normally falls asleep during this trip, making it the ideal start for any excursions by bus or car. You may notice that the stroller is actually meant to have the smallest kid in the back seat, well both Aron and Simon agrees that this way is much more fun. Simon can enjoy the scenery and Aron gets to pilot the train/bus/boat from his driver seat.

After leaving Aron at daycare I have Simon for myself for 6 whole hours, he is an excellent partner for adventure as everything big or small is greeted with the same enthusiasm.

However i did take a pic of the nearby outdoors gym.   Yes indeed! Finally a gym for fat people!  Consider it a response to This post on Dante and Magdas blog.

Aron testing the seated row.

It’s fun to play isn’t it?

We took a stop by the studio with the little kids, since we were playing in a nearby park anyway and it started to rain. Turned out Aron is now big enough to really enjoy being around instruments. I heard about that they have been playing musical games at kindgarten, that now became obvious as he immediately claimed the guitar on the wall as his own.

The resulting beautiful music was recorded, mixed and mastered on the trusty Zoom R16. Aron ends the set full of confidence with “That was a good song! It’s fun to play isn’t it?”

Simon was a good sport and enjoyed chewing cables and tormenting various percussion instruments while me and Aron were jamming.

AronSpelar by Perseid

Last weekend saw a tremendous party for Aron and his third birthday. We decided it would be best to divide up the occasion into two different parties, one for the family and another for his friends. It turns out to have been a very successful decision since each day was just as much as any party-planner would like to handle
The bicycle present was so huge for him that he still can’t really admit that he owns one,

Thank you so much to everyone for making his days great!

I am enjoying the first calm week in a while, with no special agenda to fill my evenings I am using the time to just relax and sleep. It turned out it was a good week to do so because Aron and Simon are both having trouble sleeping. Aron wakes up at 5am after a restless night, and that is on a good night. On bad nights he wakes up almost every hour. Thankfully we just completed a campaign to promote rest and sleep with Aron so now he at least accepts the fact that he has to sleep in his own bed.

Anyway as I’m writing this it’s soon 8 am and I have been up for 3 hours.

Simon weighs in at 9 kilos now for his 5 month bday. He has a wonderful calm about him, completely different from Arons red-hot temper at the same age. He has just started joining us at the table when we eat, and loves crunching up newspaper paper with his little hands and is just getting the motor skills to identity toys, grab them and drop them on the floor.

For Aron that happened about a month ago, when we visited the St:Eriks eye-clinic for kids for the last time. He did a very good test and much to our chock was prescribed with glasses instead of what we had been expecting: another batch of contact lenses.

Thinking back on the time putting in and taking out contact lenses on Aron, its hard to understand that that period is now over forever. For brief periods in his life it has been easy to manage the lenses, but for the great majority, it has been very very hard. Imagine having to make your baby cry, twice a day, forcing lenses into his eyes or trying to remove them, while he is trying his hardest to keep his eyes shut and release himself from my grip. Heartbreaking is the word.  Last summer he was talking to himself in his crib, like he does sometimes when he cannot go to sleep.  We were just about to go to sleep ourselves, and we heard him say.  ”they hold me.   and my eyes hurt.”

So today, for our dearest kid Aron, its time a new chapter. Thankfully he spotted a few other kids also getting glasses when we were at the shop, it made it a lot easier for him as well to make up his mind and accept what was going on. He chose the pair himself, with a bit of guidance from us, and he was terrificly patient today when the girl from the shop was trying them on and adjusting.

He wore them as he left the shop, and just stood and looked at people passing by, details on walls, Christmas decorations, obviously seeing things better than ever before.

Today was quite busy: after work we spent 1 1/2 hours standing in line for the vaccine. After completing that mission and surviving Arons multiple calculated revenges “sticka DIG i armen! Stick!” it was time for a 4 hour session in the studio. I heard the Korg Trinity being played today for the first time in a good while, and to my great joy D fell in love with the Moog as well. Oh and in between that I dodged down to the city to pick up a new fast Sata drive for the studio. Turns out it saved the day!

I’m still a bit unhappy about the mess the studio is in, and i’m fresh out of ideas on how to fix it up.. Maybe Simon and Thomas can come and show it some designer love?

I’m also currently working on producing the sounds for the upcoming musical City of Angels that will be running in Reginateatern in December. Come and check it out, it is going to be great!

Now everyone is sleeping but me, and Im too worked up to sleep. Maybe worth a shot tho. tomorrow is soon here…